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Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature
Engelsk
Bogcover for Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature af Patrick McDonald, 9781032368849
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
170
ISBN-13:
9781032368849
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032368845
Udg. Dato:
18 dec 2024
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
18 dec 2024
Forfatter(e):

Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature

Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction from sentimental novels to sensational drama identifies a foundational link between liberal institutions and performative utterances. Auctions, trials, marriages, and contracts, this fiction contends, all depend on the self-constituting authority of words and performances which anybody and everybody can appropriate and are always subject to misfiring. Rather than viewing this as a liberatory and egalitarian political force, however, writers from Herman Melville and James Fenimore Cooper to Captain Mayne Reid and E.D.E.N. Southworth insist that such naked authority must be supplemented. A broad swath of 1850s literature insists that this supplement ought to come from Christianity. Anticipating thinkers like Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben, these works suggest that legitimate political authority depends upon its ability to represent Christian transcendence and account for revealed truth, something firmly outside of speech acts’ and performance’s purview. In so doing, this diverse body of fiction registers a desire to reconstitute political authority on transcendent and representable ground, augmenting institutional reliance on mere words and assuaging the contemporary crises of confidence and authority.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
170
ISBN-13:
9781032368849
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032368845
Udg. Dato:
18 dec 2024
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
18 dec 2024
Forfatter(e):
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